As a companion piece to Cjunk’s “Wrong Rights” post below, here’s Daniel Greenfield on the destruction of liberty brought about by the implementation of said positive rights:

The only way to implement civil rights was to destroy civil rights in the name of civil rights so that everyone ends up with fewer rights, but learns to feel good about it. This has been the pattern for every civil rights movement since which demands its special privileges. Having run out of races, we are now pandering to such bizarre notions as sexual identity as genetic and permanently fixed, yet existing entirely apart from the body of the person, and that religiously motivated terrorism exists entirely apart from the religion.
This isn’t post-modernism, it’s post-reason. It’s post-everything. The left has always sought out the taboo and the transgressive, but as a society we are swiftly running out of transgressions to embrace and protect with government legislation. The more tolerant that Americans grudgingly become in the name of decency, the harder the commissars of correctness have to search for some new bigotry to charge them with.

Read the whole essay, “Uncivil Rights”, here.

More government bureaucracy, and a culture of genuflecting to special interests:

Commissar Sebelius says that she is trying to “strike the appropriate balance.” But these two things — a core, bedrock, constitutional principle, and Section 47(e)viii of Micro-Regulation Four Bazillion and One issued by Leviathan’s Bureau of Compliance — are not equal, and you can only “balance” them by massively increasing state power and massively diminishing the citizen’s. Or, to put it more benignly, by “leaving it up to the government to make good decisions.”

From science … to bad science … to fraud:

The real story in this Fakegate scandal is how the global warming movement is desperate, delusional, and collapsing as global warming fails to live up to alarmist predictions. People with sound science on their side do not need to forge documents to validate their arguments or make the other side look bad. Also, people who are so desperate as to forge documents in an attempt to frame their rivals are clearly not above forging scientific data, studies, and facts to similarly further their cause. It is both striking and telling how global warming activists have failed to condemn the acts of forgery in the Fakegate scandal.

While a growing number of American politicians take the side of the skeptics or in the least remain neutral, in Canada virtually every single politician from every party mouths Global Warming platitudes.
Cjunk asks, when will it end?
* For those unfamiliar with Fakegate.

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Some lighter fair (fare?) for the weekend. Boys, pay attention. Some wise words here:
“Why buy the ballroom dancer, when the dancing is for free?”

Saving the baby polar bears one sucker at a time:

If (the Tesla’s) battery is ever totally discharged, the owner is left with what Tesla describes as a “brick”: a completely immobile vehicle that cannot be started or even pushed down the street. The only known remedy is for the owner to pay Tesla approximately $40,000 to replace the entire battery. Unlike practically every other modern car problem, neither Tesla’s warranty nor typical car insurance policies provide any protection from this major financial loss…

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